0:00:02 > 0:00:06This programme contains scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.
0:00:06 > 0:00:10..Two tributaries of humanity, but here, this pump,
0:00:10 > 0:00:15the signifier of that which unites all. All men made in one image.
0:00:15 > 0:00:18So I declare unto you that God is light,
0:00:18 > 0:00:21and in Him is no darkness at all.
0:00:21 > 0:00:23GROANING
0:00:23 > 0:00:27If we say that we have fellowship with Him
0:00:27 > 0:00:30and walk in darkness, we lie, and we do not tell the truth.
0:00:30 > 0:00:35That if we walk in the light, as He is in the light,
0:00:35 > 0:00:39then we have fellowship, one with another.
0:00:39 > 0:00:41MAN RETCHES
0:00:46 > 0:00:47HE GROANS
0:00:57 > 0:00:59Off him, you jackals and vermin!
0:01:13 > 0:01:15Help me, my guts.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31Stay away from the water. It is the King returned.
0:01:34 > 0:01:36King Cholera.
0:02:33 > 0:02:34I have sandwiches too.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41You are kind to me, Mrs Reid.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44I would take greater care of you, Kathleen,
0:02:44 > 0:02:48if you'd name the man who would work you and then punish you so.
0:02:53 > 0:02:54Kathleen?
0:02:54 > 0:02:55No, Mrs Reid.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59If you were you my friend, you wouldn't ask me this thing.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20You might at the least have prepared a picnic, Reid.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22Some German wine, perhaps.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25I do not come here to seduce, Inspector Ressler.
0:03:25 > 0:03:28- Well, then why, Reid?- Hobbs!
0:03:32 > 0:03:33Six, sir!
0:03:37 > 0:03:39Elizabeth Jackson. You lay claim to her, do you not?
0:03:39 > 0:03:43Her dissected remains made landfall here. Blackfriars.
0:03:43 > 0:03:47On Corporation land. A case for the City Police.
0:03:47 > 0:03:52That makes her my case, not yours. You question this?
0:03:52 > 0:03:55That parts of her washed up here? No. Her provenance, however...
0:03:55 > 0:03:58- Provenance, Reid?- Where she came from. Where she was butchered.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01Whether she is a Ripper victim at all.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03The lad shouted "six".
0:04:03 > 0:04:07- Yes, I heard.- Six is the number I had painted on a sack of pig-flesh.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10It weighs the same as that package that washed up here.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13I have had numerous such packages dropped into the river
0:04:13 > 0:04:16at various intervals on both banks.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18Number six began its journey in Battersea.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23So this sack of pork has made its way five miles east of there?
0:04:23 > 0:04:26This river has strong currents, Mr Ressler.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29An eastward flow from the source, westward with the rise of the sea.
0:04:29 > 0:04:33The tide and time are apiece with the day of Miss Jackson's discovery.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36As this sack went into the river in Battersea, then so did she.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39But the Ripper cuts his swathe here. The City and the East.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41This woman is not such!
0:04:41 > 0:04:43No! No, she must be.
0:04:43 > 0:04:47This girl was diced, separated and put into the river
0:04:47 > 0:04:49in order to obscure her murder.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54The Ripper would have us sit up and pay heed, have men, men like you,
0:04:54 > 0:05:00Inspector, clamour to add your names to the tally of those who have wandered after him.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03- Inspector Reid! - Whitechapel calls you back, Reid.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06- Inspector Reid! - Forget your dismay, inspector.
0:05:06 > 0:05:07Have it from me and remember it well.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11You want no part of this parade.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13Inspector Reid, you must come immediately.
0:05:36 > 0:05:39- Morning to you. - And to yourself.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42You are alone here?
0:05:42 > 0:05:45The world hides in fright when there's rumour of cholera.
0:05:47 > 0:05:52- But not yourself.- No, sir. I make my home where men's fear lies.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54I fight it for them.
0:05:54 > 0:05:56Then you are welcome here.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13- The dead man is here? - He is, sir.
0:06:13 > 0:06:17Mr Jackson and Mr Drake delivered him to us.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21You question whether his death is a matter for us?
0:06:21 > 0:06:25- It is a medical issue, is it not? - If any more are dead, it'll be one of public order.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27Then should the water pumps be broken?
0:06:27 > 0:06:29Not until we confirm cholera.
0:06:29 > 0:06:33Its water keeps most of this populace above ground.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36We close the pumps, they'll be drinking from the river in a day.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38And the dead will line the streets.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48He's rigid. A spasm at the point of death.
0:06:48 > 0:06:49The jaw is locked, but...
0:06:53 > 0:06:54The gums are discoloured.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59The tongue's engorged.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02All the signs.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05You have word out enquiring after other choleroids?
0:07:05 > 0:07:07I do, sir. And nothing.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13Fouled his fine suit too.
0:07:15 > 0:07:19I was not here in '76, the last time the King cut his way through these streets.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24Sudan, sir. I missed that particular party.
0:07:24 > 0:07:28'75. I was in New Orleans when he came.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32Each town, each settlement. Men, women and child rotting.
0:07:34 > 0:07:35Food for flies.
0:07:38 > 0:07:39We must expect more, then?
0:07:40 > 0:07:43I'll get him open. Get you sure.
0:07:45 > 0:07:46He had no other effects on him?
0:07:46 > 0:07:49He was scavenged before they saw what he was.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54This is a financial paper. He's a City man.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56This may not be our problem.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59Indeed. But a news vendor has written here. An address, perhaps?
0:07:59 > 0:08:02We should cross to Corporation land, find his home,
0:08:02 > 0:08:05see if others there suffer or no.
0:08:05 > 0:08:09Reid, this is a whale, not a man. I'm going to need a hand in here.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13They say no infection may pass through it.
0:08:13 > 0:08:17Hobbs, the dead room requires an assistant. Go to Captain Jackson, see what he wants.
0:08:17 > 0:08:18You'll enjoy that, Hobbs.
0:08:18 > 0:08:19Yes, sir.
0:08:21 > 0:08:25Sergeant Artherton, I want all other men out where people can see them, not hiding in here.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32And any man found wearing a mask, I shall personally see them
0:08:32 > 0:08:34exposed to one of Mr Lister's bacteria.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36We'll not alarm these people by our absence.
0:08:39 > 0:08:45Kathleen, please, this man who sells you, sells you and beats you,
0:08:45 > 0:08:47you protect him and he will send you back here.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49You and twenty others like you.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51Perhaps he will, Mrs Reid.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54But a woman has to work to find food and lodging in this city.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56I work to find you that lodging.
0:08:56 > 0:09:00And will there be any that does not insist upon churching me every Sunday?
0:09:00 > 0:09:04Upon my knees, listing the sins I got on my back?
0:09:05 > 0:09:07RETCHING
0:09:07 > 0:09:09- Help me!- Nurse!
0:09:13 > 0:09:15He's a big man, Hobbs.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18When I cut, he's liable to fall away some, you're going to help me.
0:09:18 > 0:09:23- Sir?- See, the tissue must be drawn back...
0:09:25 > 0:09:29..to reveal the breastbone. Now, I need you to hold it.
0:09:29 > 0:09:31Now pull.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34Just peel the flesh back gently, evenly, while I cut.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39The breastbone is held in place by cartilage.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43We need to cut the lower jaw here.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47The breastbone comes...off.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52Pull the tongue and the trachea.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57And now to access where this man's killer lives.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00- And where's that, sir? - The bowel, Hobbs.
0:10:03 > 0:10:04The bowel.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14We step out of our jurisdiction now, Sergeant. Tread carefully.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16DOGS BARK
0:10:16 > 0:10:17Ma'am.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22Money never begat courtesy, Bennet.
0:10:22 > 0:10:23No, sir.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28Excuse me. Could you tell me where this is delivered to?
0:10:41 > 0:10:43Delivered each morning.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46Our presence here marked. City Police, sir.
0:10:46 > 0:10:47Let them mark it.
0:10:49 > 0:10:53It's a German named Koch that saw them first.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Grew them too.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00Cholera bacillus in a jar.
0:11:00 > 0:11:04Saw how it loved dirt and dank earth,
0:11:04 > 0:11:07how it lived to breed and spread in river basins.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11And how if your glass was strong enough...
0:11:13 > 0:11:16..you could actually see it in a man's gut.
0:11:17 > 0:11:18And do you see it, sir?
0:11:20 > 0:11:22No. No, Hobbs. I do not.
0:11:24 > 0:11:27Captain Jackson. Word comes from the dispensary, sir.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31- More dead?- Not yet, sir. But many sick.
0:11:33 > 0:11:37If it's not cholera, then what? Find Reid, Hobbs.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45Number 26, sir. We'll take a look.
0:11:47 > 0:11:51You're Metropolitan Police and beyond your jurisdiction.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53I suffer no obligation to you.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56You will give us access.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59Or I shall take you where we shall find you your obligation.
0:12:03 > 0:12:04My thanks to you.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11Sir?
0:12:15 > 0:12:16Is she dead?
0:12:20 > 0:12:23No. Opium, Sergeant. Have a look around.
0:12:47 > 0:12:48Wake up, wake up.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51What?
0:12:53 > 0:12:55Ow, who are you?
0:12:55 > 0:12:58The police, wench, is who we are.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00- Whose lurk is this?- Mine.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03The truth, toffer.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06- Mine in name. His in spending.- His?
0:13:06 > 0:13:09Big man. Small eyes. Pink like a pig.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11- S'right.- How's your health?
0:13:11 > 0:13:15- Well, my arm hurts, but apart from that...- Cramps, vomiting?
0:13:15 > 0:13:19- No! Why?- What's his name, the man that installs you here?
0:13:19 > 0:13:23- Winston. Algernon Winston. - He was with you last night?
0:13:23 > 0:13:26He was. Raging all night about his head and his belly.
0:13:26 > 0:13:30- Place of work?- I dunno. I swear it. Why would he tell me?
0:13:30 > 0:13:33I don't care to ask which Jew fills his pockets.
0:13:33 > 0:13:36- Then it's a bank?- Course it's a bleeding bank!- In the street?
0:13:36 > 0:13:39You ever walk him back there after a night on your back?
0:13:39 > 0:13:41New Inn. Huge black door.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49So where is he, then?
0:13:49 > 0:13:52He's cold clay, woman. As gone as your girlhood.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55Best find another fine suit to climb inside.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04Off your patch twice in a day, Reid?
0:14:04 > 0:14:05Put in for transfer?
0:14:05 > 0:14:08We'd need grander manners and blacker boots for that.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11- Aye, and a poker up our arseholes. - What is it your pit-dog says?
0:14:11 > 0:14:14You enquire after my presence here, here's the reason for it.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17I've a resident of your square mile on my slab,
0:14:17 > 0:14:21- grey and stinking and every mark on him telling me cholera. - Keep your voice down, man.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24- And keep your men off my manor.- Hobbs?
0:14:24 > 0:14:28A message for you, sir. You're needed at the Eastern dispensary.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30What, Constable? Are there more?
0:14:32 > 0:14:33Don't think this forgotten.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49- WOMAN:- Fetch a nurse. Fetch her quick.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51RETCHING
0:14:55 > 0:14:58BABY WAILS
0:14:58 > 0:15:00Emily?
0:15:00 > 0:15:02- Edmund?- Are you sick? - No, I am well.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Then why are you here?
0:15:04 > 0:15:07- I was visiting. - One of your women?
0:15:11 > 0:15:13Reid!
0:15:13 > 0:15:14- Mrs Reid.- Captain.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18It spreads.
0:15:18 > 0:15:20- Indeed.- Is it what we fear? - Well, that depends on what you fear.
0:15:20 > 0:15:24The fat man, his insides have a story to tell.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27But that story ain't cholera.
0:15:27 > 0:15:29What else could afflict so many?
0:15:30 > 0:15:31I don't know.
0:15:34 > 0:15:35Then what...?
0:15:39 > 0:15:40What the hell is he doing here?
0:15:42 > 0:15:45Ressler, you have an insight into what is happening here.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48Now is your moment to tell me. Why do you follow us?
0:15:49 > 0:15:50I have others.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52Dead in such a way? How many?
0:15:52 > 0:15:56- Four in two days.- Four! And you have kept this silent?
0:15:56 > 0:16:00A panic in the City! We close for business, New York makes a million in our place.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02And now the dead of Whitechapel flush you out.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07We have a contamination. But of what? From where?
0:16:07 > 0:16:10Ah, this hell! Hell rises up!
0:16:10 > 0:16:11They rave.
0:16:13 > 0:16:15Reid, one of mine. A waiter.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17The word was, he fled from the eating house he served,
0:16:17 > 0:16:20stripped in the street and gave himself to God's protection.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23You have heard of ergotism?
0:16:25 > 0:16:27- I'm with you.- Ergotism?
0:16:27 > 0:16:30It is a fungal infection on the rye grain.
0:16:30 > 0:16:31It's milled into the food chain.
0:16:31 > 0:16:35Sustained exposure can lead to ravings and visions.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40Sssh, I need you to tell me how you feel.
0:16:40 > 0:16:44I burn, sir! My feet and my fingers are aflame!
0:16:44 > 0:16:45Burning sensation in the extremities.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48Medievals knew it as St Anthony's Fire.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50Reid, ergotism. The man on my slab,
0:16:50 > 0:16:53it doesn't account for the manner of his passing,
0:16:53 > 0:16:55the gastric collapse that preceded it.
0:16:55 > 0:16:56And yours the same?
0:16:57 > 0:16:59Puked and shat themself to death?
0:16:59 > 0:17:00Yes.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02Well, we have a start, Captain.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05- There is a test for ergotism, is there not?- Ehlrich's reagent.
0:17:05 > 0:17:09- Ressler, you will bring your dead to my laboratory. - Reid, I cannot simply...
0:17:09 > 0:17:11You can, you will!
0:17:11 > 0:17:14Captain Jackson will make comparison. We'll work on finding a bacteria
0:17:14 > 0:17:18- that unites these deaths. Tell us what we fight against.- Very well.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Sergeant Drake, you and I have interviews to conduct.
0:17:20 > 0:17:25We should learn from these, how they may have ingested this infection.
0:17:25 > 0:17:27Reid, I need you to bring me one.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30A body near death. I need to study how it take 'em.
0:17:32 > 0:17:33Go with him.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38What is this that strikes here, Edmund?
0:17:38 > 0:17:40I hope to find out. Go home, Emily.
0:17:40 > 0:17:44- I have appointments in town with possible sponsors... - And I would have you safe
0:17:44 > 0:17:47and crossed off the roll of those I fear for.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50- Please, Emily, go home! - You forget how my every day is,
0:17:50 > 0:17:52how I have feared for you,
0:17:52 > 0:17:55and how those fears have been proved accurate?
0:17:55 > 0:17:58I would do more with my life than sit by the fire
0:17:58 > 0:18:00in grief and anxiety.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05You dedicate your life to your service and at some sacrifice.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08All I ask is that you allow me the same.
0:18:11 > 0:18:15Boil your water, Emily. Eat nothing that has not been sealed.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21With me, Sergeant.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38Food?
0:18:38 > 0:18:40Jedzenie? Pic?
0:18:41 > 0:18:44Nothing? How long?
0:18:47 > 0:18:48Three, three days?
0:18:51 > 0:18:52I am sorry.
0:19:01 > 0:19:02RETCHING
0:19:04 > 0:19:10This contamination. We have Winston. Ressler has his dead.
0:19:10 > 0:19:15All this, it is the same affliction, but none yet die.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17And what should we learn from this, sir?
0:19:17 > 0:19:19I know not. Not yet.
0:19:21 > 0:19:25Sergeant Drake, have a Maria brought to the porter's exit.
0:19:25 > 0:19:26Sir?
0:19:26 > 0:19:28I think we have the Captain's case study.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34- What's your name?- George.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37George. George, I have a mind to take you from here.
0:19:37 > 0:19:41- To where?- To peace. Four walls, a bed.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43The devils that chase you will not find you there.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52It tests positive for ergotism.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00But that cannot be all.
0:21:08 > 0:21:09My husband.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13Dead some ten years now.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22I had not been told you were also bereaved.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26Yes.
0:21:28 > 0:21:29A daughter.
0:21:29 > 0:21:30I see.
0:21:32 > 0:21:33Hmm, you lose a girl,
0:21:33 > 0:21:36and come to me seeking the funds to house a hundred.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45He seems strong. He will fight.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47In which case, he is ideal.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55Any change in this man's temper, you call Captain Jackson.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57Inspector Reid!
0:22:04 > 0:22:06I...
0:22:06 > 0:22:07..bring out my dead.
0:22:10 > 0:22:14In our shelter, women would find care and compassion.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17And we would make them safe, Mrs Gable.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19And improve them also?
0:22:19 > 0:22:22If they seek to improve themselves, we will help them.
0:22:22 > 0:22:26Through prayer and their promise of chastity?
0:22:26 > 0:22:29Through whatever means they choose for themselves.
0:22:30 > 0:22:36No mention of their sin? On God's place in their redemption?
0:22:36 > 0:22:41Ma'am, I fear such emphasis will only turn them away in the fear
0:22:41 > 0:22:44that judgement and punishment await them.
0:22:45 > 0:22:46Mrs Reid...
0:22:50 > 0:22:52My husband was held as a good man.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56A good husband to myself.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59And how, our family made a point of saying,
0:22:59 > 0:23:02how unlucky we were not to be blessed with children.
0:23:04 > 0:23:08The imputation being how unlucky he was to find himself burdened
0:23:08 > 0:23:11with so barren a wife.
0:23:11 > 0:23:14Mrs Gable, I'm...I am deeply sorry for your trouble, but...
0:23:14 > 0:23:17Do you not wonder at the reason for this curse, hmm?
0:23:19 > 0:23:24At my husband and his prowling through your Whitechapel laneways.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27At the dripping pinchcocks with whom he lay
0:23:27 > 0:23:32and whose foulness he came home to put inside his wife.
0:23:33 > 0:23:36That man, this, this Ripper.
0:23:36 > 0:23:40I celebrated his judgement and his punishment.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42Please, Ma'am, I am not well.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44And I have no pity for you.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47I considered your proposal perhaps worthy of endowment.
0:23:47 > 0:23:51That indeed an institution where these women may come to see
0:23:51 > 0:23:54the sin and error of their ways might prove a corrective
0:23:54 > 0:23:58to their number on the streets. But instead you come here to insult me
0:23:58 > 0:24:02with your talk of compassion. For whores, Mrs Reid. For whores!
0:24:02 > 0:24:04I must...
0:24:13 > 0:24:15Are you all right, missus? Are you all right?
0:24:20 > 0:24:22- We have ergot. - That can't be all.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24You think a cocktail?
0:24:24 > 0:24:27- Then this is not contamination by misadventure.- It is poison.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30- Deliberately constructed. - It does not act immediately.
0:24:30 > 0:24:35- There are those afflicted who have not eaten for days. - It acts by accumulation.
0:24:35 > 0:24:39Seduction. The body absorbs it in increments, becomes weakened.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41Can't fight and then death follows.
0:24:41 > 0:24:45- Your men continue their survey of all afflicted?- They do.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48- First results are inconclusive. - There's a lot of gin.
0:24:48 > 0:24:51- And more than half are on the skillet.- Skillet?
0:24:51 > 0:24:54Water and flour, in a stir.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56- And what is made with it? - It is drunk, Mr Ressler,
0:24:56 > 0:25:00by those who cannot find nutrition elsewhere. Violence and persecution
0:25:00 > 0:25:02have driven them a thousand miles from their home.
0:25:02 > 0:25:06They choose these streets for safety and shelter, find murder and mayhem in their stead.
0:25:06 > 0:25:08And now they cannot eat, for fear that may kill them also.
0:25:10 > 0:25:14Get these dead open. Find out what relationship the contents of their insides bear with each other.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16There are many still live.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18If you decipher this poison, they may remain so.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31CHILD LAUGHS IN THE DISTANCE
0:25:41 > 0:25:42LAUGHTER CONTINUES
0:25:59 > 0:26:02LOUDER LAUGHTER
0:26:15 > 0:26:19Bennet! Bennet, will you, will you do me a service?
0:26:19 > 0:26:23- Name it, sir.- Mrs Reid. I may not leave here at this time
0:26:23 > 0:26:25but I would know she was...well.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28It will be my pleasure, sir.
0:26:28 > 0:26:33Drake. Take a turn past Tenter Street, as well, will you?
0:26:36 > 0:26:38God!
0:26:40 > 0:26:42GROANING
0:26:42 > 0:26:43God help me!
0:26:47 > 0:26:51So you boil all water. You eat nothing that cannot be heated first.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53And nothing preserved or canned
0:26:53 > 0:26:56that has not been made so in the last six months.
0:26:56 > 0:26:57Thank you.
0:27:01 > 0:27:04- And should you see Miss Rose... - I'll keep her safe, Sergeant.
0:27:06 > 0:27:07Don't worry.
0:27:15 > 0:27:16Mrs Reid?
0:27:32 > 0:27:33Mrs Reid?
0:27:36 > 0:27:37Mrs Reid?
0:27:41 > 0:27:44Mrs Reid, it's only me. It's Sergeant Drake.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49Mrs Reid?
0:27:50 > 0:27:51Mrs Reid?
0:28:01 > 0:28:02You'll be all right.
0:28:20 > 0:28:23His temperature soars. His pulse too.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25Sir. Your name?
0:28:25 > 0:28:27The name's Jackson.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29And I am George.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31It's good to know you, George.
0:28:32 > 0:28:36No, sir. It is not. For I am a bad man.
0:28:36 > 0:28:40George, there are none of us that are good.
0:28:40 > 0:28:43Now, listen to me. I need you to tell me what you feel.
0:28:44 > 0:28:47My guts, sir. They churn like they're full of nails.
0:28:47 > 0:28:49What else? Do you burn?
0:28:52 > 0:28:53Do you see things?
0:28:54 > 0:28:58Yes, sir. Demons, that rise in me.
0:29:00 > 0:29:03I would speak of my sins.
0:29:03 > 0:29:04All men sin.
0:29:06 > 0:29:08But none so bad as I.
0:29:08 > 0:29:11Reid, is that preacher still lurking by your door?
0:29:12 > 0:29:15They talk of the Ripper as if he was the first
0:29:15 > 0:29:16to bring violence to a woman.
0:29:18 > 0:29:19But I know that feeling, sir.
0:29:21 > 0:29:25How they bend to a fist driven hard into their kidneys.
0:29:25 > 0:29:28The fear in their eyes to see a knife at their throat.
0:29:32 > 0:29:35My God, am I forsaken?
0:29:38 > 0:29:41I'd wager so, brother. I'd wager so.
0:29:43 > 0:29:44Name's George, Preacher.
0:29:47 > 0:29:49George, my son.
0:29:49 > 0:29:54Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner who have repenteth,
0:29:54 > 0:30:01more than nine and ninety just persons who need no repentance.
0:30:01 > 0:30:03GEORGE SPLUTTERS
0:30:09 > 0:30:11Was anything learnt here?
0:30:11 > 0:30:13I don't know. Get him to the lab.
0:30:15 > 0:30:18- His eyes, they were conjunctival. - And what of it?
0:30:18 > 0:30:22- The other substance you look for could be some kind of heavy metal compound.- Arsenic?
0:30:22 > 0:30:27Perhaps. But how, how is it packaged and delivered to these men?
0:30:30 > 0:30:35There's alum husks here. Lodged. Resisting digestion.
0:30:35 > 0:30:37Alum? From unprocessed flour?
0:30:37 > 0:30:39Skillet, most likely. A pie, perhaps.
0:30:39 > 0:30:41And in these first men?
0:30:45 > 0:30:48Bread. Much processed.
0:30:48 > 0:30:50- Processed?- Ground to the extreme.
0:30:50 > 0:30:53All nutritional value removed from it. White bread.
0:30:53 > 0:30:55- But still flour.- Yes.
0:30:55 > 0:30:59So this cocktail that our poisoner constructs is made, ground,
0:30:59 > 0:31:01powdered and then milled into flour.
0:31:01 > 0:31:03My God.
0:31:03 > 0:31:06Skillet, pies, pastries, cakes.
0:31:06 > 0:31:08It is in everything.
0:31:08 > 0:31:10Run your tests, Captain, find what it is we face.
0:31:12 > 0:31:15Fetch the Inspector. Tell him Mrs Reid is sick.
0:31:15 > 0:31:17Get the inspector's bed out.
0:31:19 > 0:31:22Help me with her head. That's it, that's it.
0:31:24 > 0:31:26- How bad is it, Bennet? - She'll be fine.
0:31:29 > 0:31:32- She's a strong woman, sir. - Please, bring towels and water.
0:31:36 > 0:31:38Emily, we have you safe.
0:31:40 > 0:31:41We have you safe.
0:31:41 > 0:31:44And we apply ourselves to what will take this sickness from you.
0:31:51 > 0:31:53The Marsh Test, gentlemen.
0:31:54 > 0:31:57That shelf, if you please, Sergeant.
0:31:57 > 0:32:00The brown bottle, sodium hypochlorite.
0:32:00 > 0:32:02And pour me a glass, will you?
0:32:06 > 0:32:09If this residue dissolves, it is arsenic.
0:32:09 > 0:32:11- And if it does not? - Then there is but one other.
0:32:12 > 0:32:15- Reid, should you not be with her? - I am no use to her there.
0:32:17 > 0:32:18Well?
0:32:25 > 0:32:29It is antimony. A fatal toxin.
0:32:29 > 0:32:30In amalgam with ergot.
0:32:32 > 0:32:33Such a death.
0:32:33 > 0:32:36This man, he is an evil one.
0:32:36 > 0:32:39Then we must find him, sir, and stop him.
0:32:39 > 0:32:41Easy to say, Sergeant.
0:32:41 > 0:32:44He may do his work at bakery, at mill, at wholesale.
0:32:44 > 0:32:46- He may be in Dundee for all we know.- No.
0:32:46 > 0:32:48He will be hid in these streets somewhere.
0:32:48 > 0:32:50Watching.
0:32:51 > 0:32:52I know this type of man.
0:32:54 > 0:32:55He wants his work seen.
0:33:16 > 0:33:21MEN SHOUT OVER MACHINERY NOISE
0:33:41 > 0:33:44Our pimp here gives up his life yesterday
0:33:44 > 0:33:48and we must assume others also. Yet these...
0:33:51 > 0:33:53..dead some 36 hours or more.
0:33:53 > 0:33:56A breather between them and this.
0:33:56 > 0:33:59Two waves of attack. The first, small. Five men.
0:33:59 > 0:34:02The second wider, we know not how many, indecipherable.
0:34:02 > 0:34:05Yet these, these first we may study.
0:34:05 > 0:34:08They must show us the way to our poisoner. Mr Ressler,
0:34:08 > 0:34:12you must have thought on the details of these men, commonalities that might bind them?
0:34:12 > 0:34:14- I have, of course. But nothing. - No. We do not allow nothing!
0:34:14 > 0:34:18- There must be a connection! - Reid, iodine in the cabinet.
0:34:19 > 0:34:22- What are they doing now? - If you don't know and I don't,
0:34:22 > 0:34:25- sir, it's often best not to ask. - First to last, if you please.
0:34:27 > 0:34:29First to die, Mr Ressler.
0:34:29 > 0:34:30Yes, erm, of course, um...
0:34:32 > 0:34:34- First.- Name?
0:34:34 > 0:34:35Er, Dursley.
0:34:43 > 0:34:44If I may?
0:34:46 > 0:34:48Hackett.
0:34:50 > 0:34:52Blackstone.
0:34:56 > 0:34:57Grubb.
0:35:00 > 0:35:01And Winston.
0:35:08 > 0:35:11- Correlation?- They made their living within Corporation Land.
0:35:11 > 0:35:14- We are there already, Mr Ressler. - Beyond that, nothing.
0:35:17 > 0:35:21Dursley, a surgeon, practice on King William's Street.
0:35:21 > 0:35:23Hackett, a clerk at Barings, third level.
0:35:23 > 0:35:26Blackstone, a busboy at Sweetings restaurant.
0:35:26 > 0:35:29Grubb, an under-manager at Lloyds of London.
0:35:29 > 0:35:33This man, your man, name of Winston, a broker at Goldman's.
0:35:33 > 0:35:35He lived within the square mile.
0:35:35 > 0:35:38He, Marylebone, travelled by carriage.
0:35:38 > 0:35:43Hackney, by omnibus. Stepney, also omnibus, different route, however.
0:35:43 > 0:35:46Blackstone, your very own Whitechapel,
0:35:46 > 0:35:48took to his feet each day.
0:35:48 > 0:35:51No sign or record they knew one another from a hole in Bishopsgate.
0:35:51 > 0:35:54- Then we must look harder. Drake, do you have your map?- Yes, sir.
0:35:56 > 0:35:58Dursley, Grubb. Omnibus routes?
0:35:58 > 0:36:02Dursley, Bethnal Green Road. Grubb, Whitechapel Road.
0:36:02 > 0:36:05- Places of work? - Here and here.
0:36:05 > 0:36:07Mr Dursley could have disembarked here, sir,
0:36:07 > 0:36:10cut down Commercial Street to his work.
0:36:10 > 0:36:13- All roads lead to Whitechapel. - Indeed and our waiter, Blackstone,
0:36:13 > 0:36:16- on foot to Sweetings also. - That doesn't wash, Reid.
0:36:16 > 0:36:18These two, Winston and Hackett.
0:36:18 > 0:36:21He in the square mile itself, he west of there.
0:36:21 > 0:36:24- What would bring them here? - What has always brought men here?
0:36:30 > 0:36:32Captain, a hand lens.
0:36:38 > 0:36:42In his rooms I found a sugar mixture, a knife, some muslin.
0:36:42 > 0:36:46I thought it for his woman, but if you remember, she was a blonde.
0:36:46 > 0:36:49And naturally so. The remaining hair on the muslin was dark.
0:36:49 > 0:36:52- He strips himself? - On his chest, yes.
0:36:54 > 0:36:56His legs are also stripped so.
0:36:56 > 0:37:00You're asking yourself, does this man like to play a lady?
0:37:00 > 0:37:05This man, Hackett, I found something...irregular in his gut.
0:37:05 > 0:37:08- What?- Semen.
0:37:08 > 0:37:10And you thought not to say!
0:37:10 > 0:37:12Well, it had no relevance.
0:37:12 > 0:37:15Look, whatever raises another man's flag is no business of mine.
0:37:15 > 0:37:19Mr Ressler, whether these two played backgammon together or no,
0:37:19 > 0:37:22it is a current upon which they both float.
0:37:22 > 0:37:24Ready a carriage for Winston's apartments.
0:37:24 > 0:37:27We shall pick it clean for anything which speaks of these desires.
0:37:27 > 0:37:29And we may have our link.
0:37:38 > 0:37:42You know what this is. Can it be stopped?
0:37:44 > 0:37:47In a body that's recently ingested its first dose,
0:37:47 > 0:37:52an enema or lavage might remove it, but beyond that,
0:37:52 > 0:37:55Reid, you've seen this for yourself. It does not kill in one strike.
0:37:55 > 0:37:57A strong body might fight it off.
0:37:57 > 0:38:00For those of who it has already taken its grip,
0:38:01 > 0:38:04science, medicine, they only take you so far.
0:38:04 > 0:38:06And then they drop you like a stone.
0:38:10 > 0:38:14Captain, I only ask you this. Will you keep watch over Mrs Reid?
0:38:15 > 0:38:16Consider it done.
0:38:22 > 0:38:25Reid, your wife.
0:38:27 > 0:38:29You have what men have always had.
0:38:29 > 0:38:31What is that, Captain?
0:38:31 > 0:38:32Hope.
0:38:47 > 0:38:48Mr Reid, sir?
0:38:51 > 0:38:53Word comes from the dispensary. And the London as well.
0:38:55 > 0:38:57They start to die.
0:39:02 > 0:39:08God of all creation, send forth your power to heal these afflicted.
0:39:08 > 0:39:12You cleansed the lepers, gave sight to the blind
0:39:12 > 0:39:16and by simple command empowered the crippled to rise up and walk.
0:40:35 > 0:40:37I know this bawdy house.
0:40:37 > 0:40:39Mr Reid.
0:40:41 > 0:40:45FALSETTO VOICE SINGS
0:40:51 > 0:40:53APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:40:53 > 0:40:55Police! Everybody, stay calm.
0:40:55 > 0:40:56Sit, sit, sit, sit!
0:40:56 > 0:40:58Everybody stay where they are and stay calm.
0:40:58 > 0:41:01- This is no raid. This is no raid!- Sit down!
0:41:01 > 0:41:04Get your hands off!
0:41:04 > 0:41:06Then calm your men!
0:41:06 > 0:41:07Calm yours, madam!
0:41:07 > 0:41:11You have my word. All this quarter know I prosecute no bawdy house.
0:41:11 > 0:41:14- Even one such as mine? - Even that.
0:41:15 > 0:41:19Madam, there are two men I would seek your help in placing.
0:41:19 > 0:41:21Mr Ressler, your likenesses.
0:41:21 > 0:41:25Prepare yourself. They might have looked differently when they lived.
0:41:28 > 0:41:31They visited here, yes.
0:41:31 > 0:41:34- Regular?- Lunchtime each day.
0:41:34 > 0:41:35And you fed them, madam?
0:41:37 > 0:41:41No, sir. This is no chop house.
0:41:43 > 0:41:44The Molly House.
0:41:46 > 0:41:48The Molly House.
0:41:48 > 0:41:53Here. Mr Winston's work at Barings, Mr Hackett's - Goldman's.
0:41:53 > 0:41:56So they find their lunch on their way back to their desks?
0:41:56 > 0:41:58So we presume. I must take an interest in this section here,
0:41:58 > 0:42:02where the routes are joined. Ressler, the omnibus stations you spoke of?
0:42:02 > 0:42:05Dursley here. Grubb here.
0:42:05 > 0:42:08And Blackstone, our waiter, his home and route?
0:42:08 > 0:42:09Here to here.
0:42:10 > 0:42:14This web of streets, a convergence where they meet.
0:42:14 > 0:42:16- We walk these routes, then?- We do.
0:42:16 > 0:42:19We must find the place at which their lives intersected
0:42:19 > 0:42:22and hope to learn from it why they are joined in death also.
0:42:30 > 0:42:32Inspector! Look.
0:43:22 > 0:43:25'A milling for new customers, Mrs Gable.
0:43:25 > 0:43:26'A special batch.
0:43:26 > 0:43:30The bakers of London will all soon be shouting our name, ma'am.
0:43:30 > 0:43:31Hmm.
0:43:32 > 0:43:34These can go, Harris. This way, ma'am.
0:43:38 > 0:43:42'As you see, all is ever as it should be.
0:43:42 > 0:43:45Yes, I can see as it ever should be.
0:43:45 > 0:43:48It is you that insists on these inspections, not myself.
0:43:48 > 0:43:50It is your mill, Ma'am.
0:43:50 > 0:43:56It is ever important to us that you see what work we perform for you.
0:43:56 > 0:43:59Of course. Lead on, Mr Claxton.
0:43:59 > 0:44:00Lead on.
0:44:03 > 0:44:05Good day, gentlemen.
0:44:06 > 0:44:08Same time next week, Mr Claxton?
0:44:08 > 0:44:09Of course, Mrs Gable.
0:44:09 > 0:44:11You'll be ready, I'm sure.
0:44:13 > 0:44:17- Ready as ever, Ma'am. - Sergeant, no man leaves.
0:44:17 > 0:44:22Inspectors Reid and Ressler, police. Your names and business here.
0:44:22 > 0:44:24Flora Gable. I am proprietor.
0:44:24 > 0:44:26Claxton. General manager.
0:44:26 > 0:44:30Well, Mrs Gable, Mr Claxton, a batch of flour you sold went bad.
0:44:30 > 0:44:32- Bad?- Men died.
0:44:32 > 0:44:33- This sickness?- Yes, ma'am.
0:44:36 > 0:44:37Mr Claxton, help these men.
0:44:37 > 0:44:40Yes, of course. Please, come with me.
0:44:40 > 0:44:44- The batches are all logged and recorded. You have the number?- I do.
0:45:00 > 0:45:02- The number, sir? - Mr Ressler will give it to you.
0:45:02 > 0:45:03Thank you, sir.
0:45:09 > 0:45:12- This your office, Mr Claxton? - It is, sir. Yes, sir.
0:45:17 > 0:45:21- You install these cabinets yourself? - If memory serves, sir.
0:45:22 > 0:45:26Reid, every man likes a good cabinet, but is this quite the time?
0:45:42 > 0:45:46Did you notice the dimensions of this room from without, when we entered?
0:45:46 > 0:45:48It is a rectangle, Mr Ressler.
0:45:53 > 0:45:56Now we are inside, how does it look?
0:45:56 > 0:45:59- Like a cube, Reid.- It does so.
0:46:11 > 0:46:12Mr Ressler.
0:46:31 > 0:46:33- MRS GABLE GASPS - Reid!
0:46:36 > 0:46:39I have worked hard, Mr Reid. And now, look,
0:46:39 > 0:46:44it is synthesised as a liquid. Much faster in its actions.
0:46:44 > 0:46:46An increased agony in death, also.
0:46:49 > 0:46:51- Mrs Gable?- Yes.
0:46:51 > 0:46:53- Those papers on the desk.- Yes.
0:46:53 > 0:46:54Take them, please.
0:46:56 > 0:46:58The steel bin at your feet. Drop them in there.
0:47:00 > 0:47:02Those matches on the desk.
0:47:03 > 0:47:04Strike them.
0:47:09 > 0:47:10And burn the papers.
0:47:15 > 0:47:16The delivery details.
0:47:18 > 0:47:20If you please, we shall leave now.
0:47:27 > 0:47:29MRS GABLE SCREAMS
0:47:29 > 0:47:30Please, don't!
0:47:37 > 0:47:40- Drake! Sergeant Drake! - Mr Reid, sir!
0:47:40 > 0:47:44- Stand your man down, Reid! - Drake, he has the poison!- Stay back!
0:47:44 > 0:47:48Drake, you recall a conversation we had some while ago on John Stuart Mill and his philosophy?
0:47:48 > 0:47:51- I do, sir. His principle of happiness.- And do you recall what,
0:47:51 > 0:47:54when faced with a choice, he held the proper course of action to be?
0:47:54 > 0:47:57Whatever would lead to the greater well-being, sir.
0:48:03 > 0:48:06Tell me where it is! Tell me where the rest of it is!
0:48:06 > 0:48:09I will tell you nothing, nothing. Only this.
0:48:09 > 0:48:12There is more, more even than before,
0:48:12 > 0:48:17making its glorious way into this world this very moment.
0:48:17 > 0:48:20- Reid!- Your evil has poisoned my wife!
0:48:20 > 0:48:22We'll get nothing if you kill him.
0:48:23 > 0:48:25Not if I kill him immediately, no.
0:48:48 > 0:48:50Get him strapped to a cot in our dead room.
0:48:50 > 0:48:53- You are going to save lives, Claxton!- No!
0:49:12 > 0:49:14Edmund...
0:49:15 > 0:49:18Edmund, I see her...
0:49:21 > 0:49:22..our darling.
0:49:24 > 0:49:28I see her aflame and in water.
0:49:30 > 0:49:35You listen to me. You listen to me. You stay alive.
0:49:36 > 0:49:37Stay alive. You live.
0:49:46 > 0:49:50HE GASPS
0:50:10 > 0:50:13Curious as to your interest, Mr Claxton.
0:50:16 > 0:50:20That man. The Ripper.
0:50:22 > 0:50:23His brutality.
0:50:26 > 0:50:31How many? Seven? At most?
0:50:34 > 0:50:38And his name, all set to haunt this city for a thousand years.
0:50:41 > 0:50:43I have already tripled his score.
0:50:47 > 0:50:49Think how long they'll talk of me.
0:50:57 > 0:51:00They will talk of you to the same extent
0:51:00 > 0:51:04they have the length of your life so far.
0:51:04 > 0:51:07Precious little, I should think,
0:51:07 > 0:51:11which may go some way to explain your need to make it otherwise.
0:51:11 > 0:51:13Now, it is already abroad
0:51:13 > 0:51:17that this was an accident, terrible,
0:51:17 > 0:51:20but a contamination, not a poisoning.
0:51:20 > 0:51:24Your employer, Mrs Gable, stands by to confirm this to all who ask.
0:51:24 > 0:51:30You, Mr Claxton, will be quite, quite forgotten, I promise you.
0:51:33 > 0:51:36But not by those whose loved ones are in our hospitals.
0:51:36 > 0:51:40Not by you, eh, Mr Reid?
0:51:40 > 0:51:42Not by you.
0:51:42 > 0:51:43Nor by your wife.
0:51:44 > 0:51:46Steady, sir, steady.
0:51:53 > 0:51:54Captain Jackson.
0:51:57 > 0:52:01My surgeon. He is American.
0:52:02 > 0:52:07Now, which is the more urgent? The pain of your arm or the ergot
0:52:07 > 0:52:10and antimony that sprint, even now, through your innards?
0:52:18 > 0:52:20There's still time for you, I'd imagine.
0:52:21 > 0:52:25Then, please, wash it from me.
0:52:25 > 0:52:26Really?
0:52:28 > 0:52:30Would you rather not have me examine this break?
0:52:30 > 0:52:33No, no! HE SCREAMS
0:52:36 > 0:52:39A pity for you that we have had a run on our stores of anaesthetic.
0:52:39 > 0:52:41If you tell us where your last consignment is sent for,
0:52:41 > 0:52:45we might find that after all, we have some spare.
0:52:45 > 0:52:48Captain Jackson, how long before this toxin makes its way
0:52:48 > 0:52:50- from gut to bloodstream? - I shall never tell you.
0:52:52 > 0:52:55My death shall join the great number I have put in this world.
0:52:58 > 0:53:00Again.
0:53:00 > 0:53:03HE SCREAMS
0:53:05 > 0:53:06Until he tells you.
0:53:06 > 0:53:09CLAXTON SOBS
0:53:11 > 0:53:13Dearest Father of all mankind...
0:53:13 > 0:53:14DISTANT SCREAMING
0:53:41 > 0:53:42He has given it to you?
0:53:44 > 0:53:47Yes, sir. Everything.
0:53:47 > 0:53:51We have the delivery details, the batch number.
0:53:51 > 0:53:52Thank you, Bennet.
0:54:07 > 0:54:09Emily.
0:54:11 > 0:54:13My own sweet Emily.
0:54:15 > 0:54:19If you will only come back to me, I will, I will tell you.
0:54:21 > 0:54:25I will tell you why I am the way I am and why I cannot mourn her...
0:54:29 > 0:54:30..like you do.
0:54:36 > 0:54:38Please.
0:54:38 > 0:54:40I will do anything.
0:54:41 > 0:54:43SHE MOANS SOFTLY
0:54:43 > 0:54:45Emily! Emily! Emily!
0:54:54 > 0:54:57Edmund, she was waving to me.
0:55:00 > 0:55:02My darling was calling me on.
0:55:24 > 0:55:26Mrs Reid.
0:55:30 > 0:55:33You may have heard that the mill is to be sold.
0:55:35 > 0:55:36I did.
0:55:45 > 0:55:46Your first endowment.
0:55:48 > 0:55:51More will follow on the first day of each and every month.
0:56:01 > 0:56:03Without judgement,
0:56:03 > 0:56:07without punishment and without God if need be?
0:56:13 > 0:56:15As you would have it, Mrs Reid.
0:56:24 > 0:56:26- Thank you.- I must go.
0:56:31 > 0:56:36You are fixed on this plan, then, despite all that has passed?
0:56:36 > 0:56:37I am.
0:56:40 > 0:56:42I am and with greater conviction.
0:56:44 > 0:56:48Edmund, it was your will kept me alive those hours.
0:56:48 > 0:56:50It is a powerful force.
0:56:53 > 0:56:54Please do not set it against me.
0:57:11 > 0:57:16Reid, I cannot help but think the man's further excesses,
0:57:16 > 0:57:19his need to move beyond that initial batch...
0:57:19 > 0:57:23Dozens have perished, your wife almost among them...
0:57:23 > 0:57:27Had I not bowed to pressure to keep those bodies secret,
0:57:27 > 0:57:29the public knowledge of those deaths
0:57:29 > 0:57:32might have been enough to sate his madness.
0:57:32 > 0:57:35Word of advice, Ressler. This work we perform,
0:57:35 > 0:57:37it does not serve to look backward.
0:57:39 > 0:57:43This city, wickedness will ever leave its spores here.
0:57:43 > 0:57:46You and I, we are not magicians, we cannot see through walls
0:57:46 > 0:57:48or into men's minds.
0:57:48 > 0:57:53Dozens perished, but hundreds who were ill are now well once more.
0:57:55 > 0:57:56We fight.
0:57:57 > 0:58:00We fight with all the skills we may muster.
0:58:00 > 0:58:03Beyond that, we may do no more.
0:58:15 > 0:58:18Can you remember what it was brought you here?
0:58:18 > 0:58:19His blood was shed all upon you.
0:58:21 > 0:58:23What did you see?
0:58:23 > 0:58:24'Tis my darkness.
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